Prize winners
We are recognising individuals, collaborations and teams for their exceptional achievements in advancing the chemical sciences.
2026 winners announcement Yearly celebrations
Celebrating our 2026 Prize winners
Thank you to everybody who took the time to make a nomination this year, and to all of our volunteers on our judging panels. Explore our prize winners to find profiles, see photo galleries, get insights into their work, and read a question and answer session with the prize winner.
Research & Innovation Prize winners
Celebrating exceptional people advancing the chemical sciences across industry and academia.
Horizon Prize winners
Celebrating groups, teams and collaborations making discoveries and innovations that push the boundaries of science.
Inclusion and Diversity Prize winner
Recognising individuals or teams that have improved the accessibility, inclusivity and diversity of the chemical science community.
Volunteer Recognition Prize winners
Celebrating our members who support and inspire others within the community.
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Filter in a variety of ways including year to find our latest winners along with those from previous years.
Professor Bhavik Patel
University of Brighton
For the design of innovative and effective analytical chemistry curriculums.
2021 Excellence in Higher Education Prize
Professor Bonnie Ann Wallace
Birkbeck, University of London
For the pioneering development of biophysical methods and bioinformatics tools to enable the characterisation of ion channel-drug molecule complexes.
2020 Chemistry Biology Interface open prize: Khorana Prize
Professor Bruce Turnbull
University of Leeds, UK
For the development and application of bioorthogonal approaches in engineering functional protein and carbohydrate based systems.
2024 Bader Prize for Organic Chemistry
Professor Cameron Alexander
University of Nottingham, UK
For interdisciplinary research at the boundaries of chemistry, bio-responsive materials, and medicine.
2025 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Chris Abell
University of Cambridge, UK
For pioneering work on fragment-based drug discovery and microfluidic microdroplets.
2020 Interdisciplinary Prizes
Professor Chris Willis
University of Bristol, UK
For outstanding contributions across the broad spectrum of natural product chemistry.
2020 Natural Product Chemistry Award
Professor Christiane Timmel
University of Oxford, UK
For seminal contributions to the fields of spin chemistry and electron paramagnetic resonance.
2020 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Christopher Hardacre
University of Manchester, UK
For outstanding contributions to the areas of liquid and gas phase heterogeneous catalysis.
2022 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Christopher Hunter
University of Cambridge
For pioneering a quantitative description of non-covalent interactions and establishing key principles in supramolecular design to create duplex-fo...
2020 Supramolecular Chemistry Award
Professor Claire Carmalt
University College London, UK
For contributions to the development of functional thin films as transparent conducting oxides, photocatalysts and heterojunction photoanodes for p...
2024 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Claire Corkhill
University of Sheffield, UK
For advances in ceramic and glass materials for the safe immobilisation of radioactive waste through fundamental understanding of surface degradati...
2023 Environment, Sustainability and Energy mid-career Prize
Professor Dame Margaret Brimble
The University of Auckland, New Zealand
For a large body of pioneering work spanning the fields of natural product synthesis, peptide chemistry, and medicinal chemistry.
2022 Organic Chemistry open prize: Pedler Prize
Professor Damion Corrigan
University of Strathclyde, UK
For innovative contributions to the field of electrochemical sensors for biomedical applications.
2025 Analytical Science mid-career Prize
Professor Darren Dixon
University of Oxford, UK
For the discovery, development and applications of iridium-catalysed reductive functionalisation of amides and lactams.
2023 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor Daryl Williams
Imperial College London and Surface Measurement Systems Limited
For the pioneering invention of the dynamic vapour sorption instrument, which has transformed research laboratory practise worldwide.
2020 Chemistry World Entrepreneur of the Year
Professor Dave Adams
University of Glasgow, UK
For the chemical control of reactivity and functionality in soft materials.
2025 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor David Evans
John Innes Centre, Norwich and 欧美AV Inorganic Biochemistry Discussion Group
For outstanding service to the 欧美AV through the activities of our inorganic and biochemical member-led communities.
2020 Award for Exceptional Service
Professor David K Smith
University of York, UK
For pioneering an understanding of molecular materials based on supramolecular gels.
2022 Tilden Prizes for Chemistry
Professor David Procter
University of Manchester, UK
For the development of new methods in the synthesis and use of heterocycles in the areas of radical and organosulfur chemistry.
2020 Bader Prize for Organic Chemistry
Professor Dennis Liotta
Emory University, USA
For sustained innovation in synthesis and antiviral drug discovery, translating fundamental chemistry into life-saving medicines.
2026 Sir Derek Barton Gold Medal
Yearly celebrations
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